Yea Coates was on some bullshyt out the gate. It completely escaped him that in a world where there's a giant purple helmet wearing white man that eats planets and a talking rac00n with a chopper, that it's entirely possible for a king to be "heroic". It'd be like someone looking at Batman and thinking "privileged trust fund baby with Rothschild wealth uses aggressive force on inner city "criminals" while living Donald Trump playboy lifestyle huh?I thought that's what they were already doing with the Avengers with Blue Marvel and Miss America, Captain Marvel and Galactus.
I stopped reading comic books after how wack Black Panther was.
Coates doesn't seem to subscribe to radical feminism, but, it seemed like it bothered him to make T'Challa heroic.
He told Fan Bros (which I've had to stop listening to for the same liberal, we-are-the-world) something to the effect that King's aren't heroic or do heroic.
Like, fam, it's a comic book. Make him a King and hero.
Please direct me to that issue.
I'm buying Rise of Black Panther right now.
" and running wild with those connotations lolBut after seeing Coogler's interpretation, perhaps a light bulb switched on that 1) you can address real world politics/issues without trying to force the character and mytho into being something they never were and 2) the character is heroic and a king, and can balance it well, and it doesn't matter if it's "realistic". No more so than how realistic it is for another trust fund baby to step into a flying militarized armored suit and battle asian stereotypes with magic rings.
It was last month's issue #171, where the reset button seemed to be pressed. Okoye reintroduced after being gone for like 15 years, Doras love BP again, BP's suit had a moment straight out of the movies, oh and "Wakanda forever" arm cross. Oh and BP actually doing soime BP things with his intellect and cunning. I almost couldn't believe it.
